Hasselbacher’s apartment is violently sacked.
It becomes clear this isn’t just a coincidence when another of his “agents” is shot at in public, and Dr. His web of lies becomes more tangled when someone real he has named his fake agent Raul dies in a suspicious car accident. She wants to track down all Wormold’s agents to speak with them, but he goes to hilarious lengths to keep her away from the people he has made up. His new secretary, Beatrice Severn-code name “C”-is highly skilled. They send out a team to help Wormold succeed in his mission. London takes this new development seriously. He makes up a story about a secret Communist military base that he has uncovered, complete with blueprints, except that the drawings he sends to London aren’t missiles or weapons but blown-up, zoomed-in schematics of a vacuum cleaner. One day, Wormold decides to make his report a little juicier to keep the attention of M16. The only person Wormold comes clean to is his best friend, a physician and veteran named Dr. Oblivious to her father’s new job, Milly basks in his newfound fortune. He even starts to collect the salaries of assistant agents who don’t exist. Wormold thumbs through the local newspaper, stealing the names of local country club members and using them to create personas.
He starts crafting small stories, but gradually, they grow crazier as they start to involve real people. Instead, he decides to fabricate his reports to M16. However, Wormold, now known by his code name 59200/5, does not complete a single mission. Wormold is a terrible fit for the job, but since he is desperate for money, he signs on. One night at the local bar, a man named Hawthorne approaches Wormold offering a position as a spy in Havana for M16, Britain’s Secret Service. She is pious and religious, yet materialistic and superficial, and nothing Wormold does seems to make her happy. Business is slow, his wife has left him, and his 16-year-old daughter, Milly, is difficult and demanding. James Wormold, a middle-aged English vacuum cleaner salesman living in the heart of Havana, Cuba has very little going for him.
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